PINION C1.12 GEARBOX | $1,300 | 3,273 GRAMS, TOTAL SYSTEM WEIGHT

Pinion also uses three multipliers but unlike triples, there is no overlap in Pinion’s C1.12 gearbox. This means you have 12 completely unique gears, each evenly separated by 17.7-percent steps to compose a massive 600-percent range.

That sounds like a lot of range. It is. SRAM’s Eagle is 500 percent. Yep, 600 is enormous.

But Pinion’s internals look nothing like the cassettes we’re familiar with. Peering within the black box looks to reveal the innards of an evil clock tower.